Friday, August 28, 2009

While catching up on my reading, I recently learned that White House Social Secretary & Super Socialite Desiree Rogers graced the cover of Michigan Avenuemagazine this month.

And, as always she looks absolutely smashing.

There are some who want Ms. Rogers to "fall back" from her so-called "glamour girl" persona - largely because she is working in The White House during the United States' worst economic recession in recorded history.

But I'm a firm believer that one has to be who they are regardless of negative nay-sayers. Those of us who were Black Socialite watchers long before President Obama became President Obama knows that Ms. Rogers is being 100% authentic. Her clothes and fashion sense scored her magazine stories galore - and that was before she accepted her current position.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Yvonne Osirim and Karey Aarons look absolutely fabulous at the Museum Council of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA) Sixth Annual Summer Party a few weeks ago. The hosting committee for the event is a group of young professionals between the ages of 21-45.

It is sooooooo gooooooddd to be on vac-cay good people, I have to tell you!

Friday, August 14, 2009

These handsome young gents participated in the 21st annual AlphaBetaOmegaChapter of Alpha Kappa AlphaSororityInc. Beautillion in New Orleans last month.Featured in the front row: Ryan Owens, Jeremy Terry and Javier Bush. In the back row: Terrence Joseph, Terry Dunn and Caleb Bolden.

The event's theme was"Yes, We Can; Yes, We Will . . .Re-define the African American Male Image."

I know there are some proud and gushing parents out there! Thanks for sending along this great flick!

Congratulations to my Sororsof the Alpha Beta Omega Chapter for an outstanding job!

I had a tough time choosing between these two photos, so I decided to add them both!

Our top flick features Johnson Publishing Company's CEO Linda Johnson Rice with a friend at a 'Coulture & Culture' kick off event for Women's Board of the Joffery Ballet in Chicago last month.

Sheila Parham Lebwith is featured in our second flick at the InStyle Magazine's Super Saturday 12 event in the Hamptons recently. The event was a benefit for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund and Parham Lebwith was on the benefit committee. Fabulous designer Donna Karan underwrote the entire event.

Good people, enjoy your weekend and drink up some sunshine if you can!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Nasty messages are being left at the Martha’s Vineyard home of Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee. Apparently, some of the neighbors are not too thrilled about The Lees hosting The First Family during their upcoming visit to the Vineyard (people are something else aren’t they?)

Doesn’t the President DESERVE a drama-free vacation??!!

Speaking of The President, did his decision to attend a ‘Pink Ice Ball’ by a South Carolina chapter of AlphaKappaAlpha Sorority,Inc. help him win the state as reported in theNew York Times? Sorority members like to think so and we joke internally that we made history twice in 2008! This cute story is the morale booster some members needed given the recent negative press coverage of our beloved organization.

Vanity Fair Editor Amy Fine Collins had some explaining to do when White House Social Secretary & Super Socialite Desiree Rogers did not make their 2009 International Best Dressed List. Collins shared with the Washington Times that “She is not that high profile outside of New York and Washington yet.”

Hmmm…interesting pearl clutching commentary don't you think? Since Rogers was featured in Vogue Magazine long before her arrival in Washington, I think VF is going to go back to “the lab” to conjure up a better explanation than that.

Congrats to Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy who has been named Interim President of Shaw University. She is the first female to hold the post and is the former president of Johnson C. Smith University.